What is the Creative Commons License (CC)?

 Creative Commons

Creative Commons (CC) is a public copyright license that enables a copyrighted work or creation to be distributed for free. When a creator wants to allow others to modify or use their work for purposes such as commercial or educational use, they use a CC license.

Works with a CC license are works that you are free to use, as long as you adhere to the rules/conditions set by the creator. Let’s take a look at these conditions and the types of CC licenses.

Creative Commons Types

CC Licenses are generally tied to four main conditions for the protected work, these conditions are as follows.

Table of Four Main Conditions
Icon Rights Description
Attribution
Attribution (BY) You can distribute, copy, work on the work, create derivative works, or similar tasks by referencing the license holder, and you can do so for derivative works as well, by citing the owner.
Share Alike
ShareAlike (SA) You can only work and create derivative works under the same or an identical license as the original work was given.
Non-Commercial
NonCommercial (NC) Under this permission of the license holder, you can only carry out non-commercial work on, distribute, copy, or create non-commercial derivative works based on the work.
No Derivatives
NoDerivatives (ND) With this permission from the license holder, copying, distributing, and displaying the work can only be done identically. All of these actions do not include derivative works.

Now that we have examined the four main conditions, let’s also look at the CC types.

Creative Commons Types Table
Icon Definition Limitation Attribution Status Content Modification Commercial Use
CC0
Public domain - Global release of content without restriction CC0 No Yes Yes
BY
Attribution Only BY Yes Yes Yes
BY-ND
Attribution + No Derivatives BY-ND Yes No Yes
BY-SA
Attribution + Share Alike BY-SA Yes Yes Yes
BY-NC
Attribution + NonCommercial BY-NC Yes Yes No
BY-NC-ND
Attribution + NonCommercial + No Derivatives BY-NC-ND Yes No No
BY-NC-SA
Attribution + NonCommercial + Share Alike BY-NC-SA Yes Yes No

Yes friends, I tried to explain the types of CC to you as best as I could, but for detailed information, the best knowledge will be given by its official website itself. You can visit the official website from the link below and check for the necessary / detailed information there.

Creative Commons -> Official Page